live in a highly competitive world, one that is growing more so with
each passing day. If you compare the college admissions process when
you were a child to what it is today, well, you might not have been
accepted to your college at all. I’m also guessing that you were given
more options than today’s parents are willing to give their kids. Today, college is an expectation, even though some kids are definitely
not “college kids” and don’t have any desire to attend. For months
we watched the news cover over-the-top parents going to extreme

measures to make sure their kids got into prestigious colleges. Some
of those kids didn’t want to go to college at all, but they weren’t given
the choice.
Here in Houston, we hear about the desperate need for welders,
for oil tanker workers, for service industry workers, and so on, yet we
continue to insist that our children - despite their abilities or desires must go to college. In this scenario, whose dreams are being fulfilled,
ours or our children’s?